There is a Strokes Gained Calculator that Diece could use for putting. All he needs is an honest handicap. I think he will see that on days his numbers are in the negative he'll score poorly. On the days he's in the green, relative to other similar handicappers, he'll score well.

I'm not looking to belabor the point too much, but that's not necessarily true. There are three other categories.

If he gains five shots through his driving, approach shots, and short game, and loses two shots (or three) through his putting… he's going to score well relative to similar handicappers.

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Yep. If it's actually bad, he definitely needs to work on it. And hopefully he figures out whether it's Read, Bead, or Speed.

Its stroke. Pull, push, bad allignment. My putting is by far my weakest part of my game. Average around 32-35 putts.

Lets say i hit the green around 10-13 times, most of those green will be about a 25-10ft putt one or two probably under 10ft (this is going off where I played last year and had mosty short irons in) Id make maybe 1 of those putts and they arent hard greens with a lot of slope.

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Its stroke. Pull, push, bad allignment. My putting is by far my weakest part of my game. Average around 32-35 putts.

Lets say i hit the green around 10-13 times, most of those green will be about a 25-10ft putt one or two probably under 10ft (this is going off where I played last year and had mosty short irons in) Id make maybe 1 of those putts and they arent hard greens with a lot of slope.

Well putts at 7'10" on the PGA Tour are made 50% of the time. At 10' you're looking at 38%.

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Finally have found a course to join. I've been looking forever and have settled on a course about an hour and a half away from home. It's called Whistle Bear. It's a long course at around 7400 yards, 76 rating and has great facilities + it's private. Membership is about 2000 which my dad is going to help with and I will be also moving closer to the course.

I was invited by the director of golf to play in the field day today, I had a lot of fun and our team played great, we actually ended up winning the tournament. (scramble).

Now, about my game. There's a demo day at the club next Saturday which I'm going to. I need to get my equipment upgraded, my driver has a crack in the shaft (getting larger) and my irons are not fitted properly. They launch the ball way too high and I'm losing a lot of distance, my 3i goes 200 yards while a good drive is around 280-290. My SS is I think 110,111 if I remember correctly, My brother who I drive the ball about 5 yards past hits his irons way further than mine. He'll hit a 9 and I'm hitting a 7 or sometimes a 6 (and he hits his irons quite well).

I had my irons custom fitted but I don't think the guy who did it understood the level of play I was after.

My driver needs to go, my 3 wood and hybrid are random clubs from the used club section and my wedges are also random used clubs.

I know equipment isn't a huge deal but I feel like playing from 7400 yards, I'm not going to be able to do anything when my 2i goes 210 and I have 234.

I also look at it as an investment. I'm going to get new stuff and that will be the sticks I play with until I get sponsored.

Thankfully one of the guys I played with today offered me a job at his restaurant where they make really good money so I should be able to afford the new gear.

9 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

Well putts at 7'10" on the PGA Tour are made 50% of the time. At 10' you're looking at 38%.

Yeah.

On hard greens, that are fast and have breaks.

My averages are on shit greens that aren't very fast and don't have much slope.

Another nice thing about Whistle Bear is that it has a fitness centre.

Which is great cause my 145 pound ass could use some weight...maybe I'll gain some yards.

Finally have found a course to join. I've been looking forever and have settled on a course about an hour and a half away from home. It's called Whistle Bear. It's a long course at around 7400 yards, 76 rating and has great facilities + it's private. Membership is about 2000 which my dad is going to help with and I will be also moving closer to the course.

Now, about my game. There's a demo day at the club next Saturday which I'm going to. I need to get my equipment upgraded, my driver has a crack in the shaft (getting larger) and my irons are not fitted properly. They launch the ball way too high and I'm losing a lot of distance, my 3i goes 200 yards while a good drive is around 280-290. My SS is I think 110,111 if I remember correctly, My brother who I drive the ball about 5 yards past hits his irons way further than mine. He'll hit a 9 and I'm hitting a 7 or sometimes a 6 (and he hits his irons quite well).

I had my irons custom fitted but I don't think the guy who did it understood the level of play I was after.

My driver needs to go, my 3 wood and hybrid are random clubs from the used club section and my wedges are also random used clubs.

I know equipment isn't a huge deal but I feel like playing from 7400 yards, I'm not going to be able to do anything when my 2i goes 210 and I have 234.

I also look at it as an investment. I'm going to get new stuff and that will be the sticks I play with until I get sponsored.

Thankfully one of the guys I played with today offered me a job at his restaurant where they make really good money so I should be able to afford the new gear.

Another nice thing about Whistle Bear is that it has a fitness centre.

Which is great cause my 145 pound ass could use some weight...maybe I'll gain some yards.

Maybe.

I am glad to see you have finally accepted the reality that making 10K a month is not easy. Hope your job earns good money and is not too time consuming. If you are serious about being a pro golfer, remember that you really do need to put in the hard yards of at least 6 to 8 hours daily as an average.

At the gym, make sure you are doing exercises that are tailored to helping improve your golf game. Note that they are different from bulking up your body. Sometimes, bulking up can actually hinder your golf game.

Make sure you get fitted properly for your clubs and remember one thing. If you are practicing regularly to become a pro, get fitted regularly. The reason I say this is because your swing may well change after regular practice. Whether that is swing speed or something else, you may well need to change clubs more than once before you become a pro.

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I am glad to see you have finally accepted the reality that making 10K a month is not easy. Hope your job earns good money and is not too time consuming. If you are serious about being a pro golfer, remember that you really do need to put in the hard yards of at least 6 to 8 hours daily as an average.

At the gym, make sure you are doing exercises that are tailored to helping improve your golf game. Note that they are different from bulking up your body. Sometimes, bulking up can actually hinder your golf game.

Make sure you get fitted properly for your clubs and remember one thing. If you are practicing regularly to become a pro, get fitted regularly. The reason I say this is because your swing may well change after regular practice. Whether that is swing speed or something else, you may well need to change clubs more than once before you become a pro.

Agree on getting fitted / checking specs on your clubs frequently if you’re working on several aspects of your swing, and practicing several hours per day. Your swing speed may increase with better mechanics and strength training, and a stiffer shaft than what you’re getting fitted into today may be necessary. Little details are magnified when fine-tuning everything: lie angle, bounce, shaft length, and launch characteristics of the shaft along with spin rates are all items that may need adjusting as you tweak certain elements of your swing. You most likely won’t need any major overhauls to what you’re fitted for today in the short term, but just be mindful of how new positions in your swing and shaft angles, grip, stance, or ball flight may effect certain specs of your clubs.

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Nobody here knows how hard I am working on this dream and to be honest, I'm not even going to bother writing 1000 words on what I'm doing and my progress. Nor am I going to explain my own self-belief.

So where does that leave us?

Well..

I'm going to post on here, a side from this post and I wish the owner would ban me & delete my account. I don't need the distraction.

You've never won (or entered) a local club championship in any grade at any level -yet you are going to "dominate" a tour where currently there would be thousands of 14 year olds who could thrash you and none of them would go close to qualifying to play there.

You give misinformation about your SS and distances.

You still haven't grasped the idea that wanting something really badly has little to do with your chances of achieving it in this area.

Self-belief and delusion of self are not the same things.

Please answer the question: WHY do you think you will succeed when you have presented zero evidence? I'm not seeing posts where you won a tournament or even did anything other than embarrass yourself. Which tournaments have you entered and been in the top 3 - or 10 - or 20?

Can you score in the low to mid 60s on ordinary courses in fair conditions fairly often?

Are you known in your district as a gun player who can beat any of the locals any day of the week?

Would your name be one of the 10 who a local golf administrator or top pro would identify as someone with a good chance of making it?

Will you be one of the top 3 players at the club you are joining?

Sorry - your thread has become a perfect example of this kind of nonsense where people talk the talk but get shifty when they're asked to back it up.

I have no issue with desire or confidence, but your default position is to try to insult anyone or attack anyone who asks legitimate questions about WHY you are going to make it.

There was a thread here a while back where someone said he was going to succeed because he had no backup plan which meant he had no option but to succeed. You can guess where that ended up.

Nobody here knows how hard I am working on this dream and to be honest, I'm not even going to bother writing 1000 words on what I'm doing and my progress. Nor am I going to explain my own self-belief.

So where does that leave us?

Well..

I'm going to post on here, a side from this post and I wish the owner would ban me & delete my account. I don't need the distraction.

Edit: Locking the thread would be better. Lock this please.

If this is the attitude and outlook you have, you won't make it. The thing you don't get is, people on this forum would LOVE for you to make it. We are skeptical and many have given you much to think about to help you. Your defensiveness and inability to take a good look in the mirror and come to grips with your lack of ability is telling. In order to get somewhere in life, self-belief is not enough. You must take your weaknesses and gaps and make them strengths. You do not acknowledge your gaps; you shrug them off with affirmations of own self-belief to protect your ego from what you know deep down is true. It takes bravery and a strong person to look at his own flaws in the face and take them head on to improve. Your self belief is a fallacy. You're blinding yourself because you cannot admit your flaws. You hide behind a few good shots and rounds you've accomplished under conditions of no real consequence.

Stop belly-aching and get to work. You have a wealth of good advice here and coaching and yet you don't take it up. Here's what I would do: 1) grow the hell up, 2) take this advice and improve, or 3) just enjoy golf as leisure like the rest of us.

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I spent quite some time auditioning hybrids until I settled on a 5 and 3 wood. Once I'd done that it became a matter of choosing a hybrid that suited, or fit, the space between my irons and fairways. It isn't, to my thinking, what hybrid is best...it's which hybrid is most like the clubs on either side. I want the weight, and flex, to be similar to my 4 iron and 5 wood. In other words: I'd rather fit one club to the set than craft a set around one club.

Day 133. Had a little bit of time, wish I had more. Did the 6' putting drill I've been doing; this time, I hit 7/12 on the first go-around! And then 3 of 5 the second one. It was fantastic.
I then set up 8 roughly equidistant stations from 9' out. First go-around, sank none. Second go-around, sank 4. Hey, 4/8 from that distance is great, and for that matter, 4/16 isn't bad from that distance for me. Took me a bit more time to sink the rest.
You might wonder why I'm doing so much putting lately. It was an emergency and I only have n=1 rounds where it has looked good since declaring the emergency. Also, I had to pack up my home golf room so I can't practice full swing in limited time as I used to (yes, there are drills I could do that don't involve hitting a ball). Not worry, plenty of full swing work before too long.

During the club fiasco of 2019, after FedEx lost my golf clubs and I was waiting for Cobra to build me a new set of F9 One Lengths (5i - SW), I made a mistake. I bought into hype. I went down and tried out a new set of hybrids. Callaway Epic Flash. The reviews were that they were long and forgiving. Well, true and sort of true. I had a little problem with "over fading them", but with a draw setting to make them a little more upright, that seemed to fix that and I was hitting them long and straight in the shop. Unfortunately this did not last. I do not like them. I have zero confidence with the 5H. The "over-fade" with the 4H and 3H is back. I did not have this issue with my Bio Cell hybrids.
The Bio Cells were not as long, but I could hit them straight in a neutral face setting. They were also heavier in the club head. D6 vs D0. I think the weight was further back in them too for more forgiveness. What makes this a mistake is that I used them as part of the funding for the Epic Flash Hybrids.
I have a 60 day playability guarantee on the Callaways. Basically if I don't like them I can return them. I'm going to return them, but I'll need a set of hybrids. I'll bring my 6i with me. So do you guys have any suggestions for any that are easy to get in the air and tend to keep a relatively narrow dispersal pattern?

Day 27
Worked with my weighted club, but this time, I placed a football between my arms and held it in place as I focused on my takeaway. Really trying to keep my width, and prevent my arms from folding as I have had a tendency to allow in the past.

I got up for the 3am start on Friday. Had the dvr record todays start. Probably should have done this in reverse order. Still very enjoyable. Love the format and the US vs Europe.
I still have some hope for Decembers Pres. Cup. Maybe that team can be somewhat competitive.
Solheim and Ryder Cup still a must watch for me.